Tag Archives: GCC

Spring Challenge more results

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Margaret Kosmala

Last week I described some initial results from the Spring Challenge. I showed how we used individual classifications to build a dataset for a single site in a a single year. And we discovered that using paired images 7 days … Continue reading →

Posted in Project report, Research | Tagged analysis, Canada, data processing, GCC, paired images, Prince Albert National Park, results, Saskatchewan, spring | Leave a comment

Is there snow?

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Margaret Kosmala

In Season Spotter Questions we ask you about snow. Is there a lot or a little? Is it on the trees or just on the ground? These might seem like strange questions to ask. After all, snow doesn’t tell us … Continue reading →

Posted in Why do we ask that? | Tagged GCC, Mer Bleue, Niwot Ridge, snow | Leave a comment

Marking shifts in time-series

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Margaret Kosmala

One of the tasks we ask you to do in Season Spotter (Image Marking) is to mark places where there is an obvious shift in the camera’s view over time. We do this by extracting the center vertical line of … Continue reading →

Posted in Why do we ask that? | Tagged camera shifts, GCC, Image Marking, ROI, scene shifts | 1 Comment

Automated image processing

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Margaret Kosmala

The PhenoCam network has more than 200 cameras taking pictures of landscapes every day. These are the images we’re asking you to look at in Season Spotter, because there is information in them that a computer cannot easily pull out. … Continue reading →